problems with vnc

Hi, I wanted to make my Linux-X-stuff available on a Win95 machine, the two computers being connected via null modem. I thought vnc might be the appropriate software, so I tried to set up my linux box as a vnc server. This was not possible couldn't as the vnc server didn't find any free sockets (

Updating the kernel via patches

Hi, recently I tried to update my kernel (2.0.30) to version 2.0.33. I used the script patch-kernel (I hope the name is right) and the files patch-2.0.31.gz patch-2.0.32.gz patch-2.0.33.gz from sunsite.unc.edu. The update stopped after a short time with an error message, leaving me at

Pentium compiler

Dear experts, I'd really like to switch from gcc to pgcc from the Pentium Compiler Group. (I used their pre-compiled gzip and it's really better than the 'standard one'...) As I have no experience with libraries and there seems to be no Debian package around for pgcc (please give me a hint if I'm

support for backup hardware (streamer)

Dear Debian users, I'm running Debian 2.0 and want to do some backups from time to time. At the moment a floppy streamer seems to be the cheapest possibility, but looking at the current howto's I couldn't figure out if the Iomega Ditto 7GB is supported. (Is it still true that the 2GB version isn'